Post 5

Being a photojournalist, or trying to be, is all about turning chicken shit into chicken salad (or chicken soup). Every now and then, you'll have assignments that are visually interesting like protests, sporting events, fires, and a few others; however, most assignments are not art waiting to be photographed... most assignments suck. For example, yesterday I got a phone call that a reporter was doing a story on the unreliability of metro elevators and escalators and I had to find art to accompany the story. Ideally, I would have instantly found a broken down escalator and taken photos of people working on them... but that just was not going to happen, so I had to try to make some chicken soup.





Those were the four that I submitted. Ok, so maybe the assignment wasn't as bad as I had made it out to be... but that's mostly because the Metro is a limitless source of pictures.

Here are two more pictures that I like, but didn't submit:



-Eric